The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-17 00:00:00

A.BSTRACT OF THE ACCOUNTS OF Mr. CITARLES PETTITT ALLEN, Treasurer of the lacinaLol Middlesex, from 2d July, to Ist October, 1864, kS T , biLE ORDINARY GENERAL COUNTY RATE. RECEIPT anC eto the Bank of England on 2d July, 1804 £14,129 10 0 BATE. at on 14th Aril 1864 ..• £ 536 2 9 made 141 h July , 1864 . ...• 1 9 ,f 83 7 6 41°0 of ditto on let Oct, t 864 . 19,619 10 3 357 8 6 amount of Rate received £ 9,262 1 9 lIIIIU LPLoSECUTIONS AND CONVEYANCE OF PRISONERS Ptor a 4 , FOR PENAL SERVITUDE. 11017 mount of the Treasury of crmin al Prop ecu 186 3 f rom Ist Jul yto 31st Dec., Ditto ******************* 4,53717 2 soty n th alnount paid for tii; so, e `Y a nce of convicted Pri vit rs thesentence same period _25_181 4,573 15 3 ci:lt 1101 1SE OF CORRECTION AT COLDBATIE FIELDS. aterials worked up and La po,.,lfr done by Prisoners 'ored, Officers' Uniforms, and La 'o and Prisoners' Boots and CZ, l rs• made and done for, and Co s upplied to the Douse of 480 10 6 pop rrection at Westrrunster • • Oro ad and Officers' Uniforms It ige for, and Cocoa supplied to 1./ Printing done for the E'o l . 9 ,!lse of Detention • • 117 8 7 ,-.read and Officers' Uniforms ig s de for, and nour and Cocoa trial to the County Indus -4 4 voi, school at Feltharn * l * tOntenance of Military Pi i -4 3 4°47 ' 8 4 kna apd,a , en from Vagrants to be towards their Main: 1 6 4 8 • 4t t ft `e of Old . Stores •• • • 5 1 1 of Itati • • tZiDeosation for Uniform re -14.11,0d, by Officers on their leav- N'01.6 L ae Service of the Prison .. 5 a nd Oots and Clothing made for ti,,"plolied to the County Lu- 0 , or y,"tsylum at Hanwell • • etth`Vorms, &c., made for and p ,„ sli' l ed to the County Lunic 242 4 6 Po *al at Colney Hatch • • 0 2 8 '`'oPY of a Commitment at .. 993 4 4 85 14 0 016 4 82 15 4 4 11 3 4 15 6 1,966 10 1 ,N) 1 _ 110 1ISE OP CORRECTION AT WESTMINSTER. b o w aerials Worked up and La ° 4( 3 / 1e b Prisoners .. °r S t o e • Y • th ,ba ts" kings supphed to , e ,hatn ot Correction at Cold iz)r s Pelds •• •• •• an • aNv Mats and Bonnets .4,14:111ed to the County Lunatic PsYlur a 10 16 6 ,or at Ilanwell • • , or , ats sold —— 0 2 3 Copies of Commitments .. 0 4 0 112 1 9 70 5 3 35 0 3 ROUSE OF DETENTION. 7 i'l„,/tintenance of Deserters 2 ' ° • 10 0t Wash .. • • • 018 0 30 5 0 1 Y B • INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT FELTHAM. k , Oiar 4ie ° I Farm Produce.. .. £6O 11 4 ta le Et the maintenance of jure- O ffenders in the .School . 100 1 6 --- 160 12 10 k • ' ' re% , MILITIA. 144 8 Allowance by the War Office for the a Quarters furnishel by the County .. 797 0 0 r ee l t WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. illek e . cei ved by Inspectors .. 70 1 0 "Ild Penalties • • • • 32 17 3 -- 108 13 3 + BAI, SUNDRIES. 4.48e8 inien theo f tar i 1 koa Dv !es ana q u remo g vin into g them to the m C County 5 2 3 "Q Asylum at Colney Hatch • • • • Total Receipt .. £41,145 17 2 tone e EXPENDITURE. qen,C4 Correction at Cold Bath Field 8 4 - 14 10 To nt Expenses .. M VO 6 0 Ilit e ,:no Annuities .• .• X 407 11 2 Pri ii '_ . 6 l , 9f moneys borrowed .. 166 13 4 lot. : 1 P I repaid .• •• £10,629 5 10 6 4 e " or Detention at Clerkenwell— hitneerm E xpenses .. .. • 1,716 14 5 112 16 11 Art r est ot moneys borrowed.. 166 13 4 v 4el al repa.d .• •• -- zo n . qe'eof Correction at Westminster _ 1114eral Expenses 2,971 11 _6 lc , !erest or moneys borrowed .. 324 9 1 4110iPal repaid • • • • 675 0 u l oti zo . -- G e e I ndustrial School for Boys— Int eral Expenses .. 3 406 18 9 .erefit ofnioneysborrowed .. '678 6 8 t.'„rielPat repaid .. 533 tnents for Boys on their tl ebarge 50 9 7 •• •• •• ottp,- Ito nee of male juvenile offenders to and el el the Industrial School at Feltnam Ita? li C at °r9 School Ship Corn e pla y of Boys tor naator Y -• u ilanthropic Society's Re tichool, ditto.. Zrillatory School, "[lamps' cad 144tenance of Girls - • • • 14,4,,1l te% Stoke Reformatory— nance cf Girls • • • • 26 6 0 10 4 0 107 2 6 3 5 0 Zt t Y Lunatic Ayslum at IT _auwell— i!te it of moneys borrowed 40 13 0 t :TelPal repaid .. 200 0 0 • l i t itia ore St houses— ._ 14 t w4 ,TaKes, Insurance, Fuel, &T. 314 2 0 vre r . of moneyd borrowed .. 3.0 8 9 Pal repaid .. 626 13 4 C'tUtors and ne ,e.4tral Crimina l C itourtssei— eiddlesex Sessions annile tinctinal Act Offenders Act .. .. 762 8 5 .. 1,611 15 1 54 3 2 2 8 0 Total. Coroners' li ddle Expenses Salaries. paid. IV,„„sex— ling. 18 0 ew...„.•. 145 0 0 .. 2,7 12 6... 412 12 6 te —i Lra; • .., 105 0 0..,; 99 18 0.. -19 , v,.4sst ...... 375 00 .. 633 19 0..10 8 '; Ititainster 110 0 0.. 126 7 6 • • 336 7 6 La e aster. 11 1 9 .. 24 9 0.. 35 10 9 111(kes Gross total .. •• •• tam .° .. „ .. • • 411 1. , us House, Clerkeawell .. • • • • ~,,i.hall, Westminster • • • . :lerealat Judge's additional Salary • • • . Vei‘ u t the Peace •• . :ohta and Measures • • • • ' • • . ,047Urer of the County .. De e Yance to t , epots of Offenders sentenced • •• to tohsnal Servitude • • .. .. " . 1 - e ; 5 40 1 , 41 of Irish Paupers .. .. k,i",,,1'al Printing and Stationery (f a ertise me tz , .. • • Cell a n 8 '• •• •• •• •• tteous Charges • • 1,996 4 8 4,171 1 5 4,668 17 7 1 15 6 30 10 0 14.1433,0 e tTloetpil k an Expe E ngndif land ure . • of .. 110 7 6 2,898 7 9 119 15 8 19'J 11 11 63 16 10 75 0 0 81 5 4 151 15 6 195 4 1 35 10 8 72 1 6 98 3 7 49 17 7 300 9 8 .. £29,926 5 1 11,219 12 1 £41,145 17 2 ka 1 ,„ - "TrIE LUNATIC ASYLUMS ACT, 1853," RATE. il lthi ne „ , RECEIPT. ltiCi " 4 the Bank of England on 2d Ju'y, 5,011 19 8 k tre ~ h tsa r of rate made; . On 14th April , •• 44- .. .. £l7B 14 3 111 44 on 14th July, IECI .. 19,083 7 6 kr t „ 19,2k^.2 1 9 A 4.„,5_ ditto on Ist 0ct.,1864 .. 357 8 6 tlou - i qunt of Rate received • • t. e kK en . 1 -Ind an the person of Alexander Zildo n : l e , a Lunatic in t,olney Hatch Asylum 115 15 11 Payable to and money received for o.. ‘'uln e i ll tlice of Lunatics at Hanwelt and s•rtat liti ' , Latch Asylums at the charge of the 7 3 2 18,94 13 3 Total Receipt .. • • DEL EXPENDIT ttib. 4 o-dt Asylum at Hanwell -14,_ ?try repairs 4treat pald .• Atinelpal repaid.. • • -.Al:titles to retired Offi cers .. .. 421,739 12 0 .. £1,14413 5 on 3 8 700 0 0 42 1 8 2,823 18 9 64. 4 8y1urn at Colney Hatch ! 213 11 8 v , mary repairs .. pterest paid 3 ' 077 19 10 i til loi Pal repaid .. • . g'ifio 0 0 1. --`ll4llitieS to retired officers all tint - "4 - 7 10 0 ilettienance of county lunatics ._ sow t o Alexander 31‘lienzie the coa.lound on him, as stated per 11, 4 ". after deducting the amount -, for his maintenance, &c. .• -I- 9,489 1 6 • • , 2 852 13 1 180 16 5 Total expenditure L15:3 2 3 3 3 4 0 69 9 the Bank of England .. 9 £24,739 12 0 Ari 1 ,, O MONEYS BORROWED FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AT "UNWELL. DR. 04nt in the Bank of England in the joint 1, 41 ,„" of Henry Pownall, Esq., Henry Morris ca l i,„shead, Esq., and the County Treasurer, tt July, 18H £1,137 5 6 At io CR. 14" in the Bank of' England in the three dg ni entione I per contra on Ist Oct., 186 4 £ 1 , 137 5 6 Toesll°l "Y BORROWED FOR ERECTING A FEVER INFIR "' ~ ,,A M' AT THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AT COLNEY HATCH. 4 140 1 ,„ DR. in the Bank of England in the joint ken; a rf Henry Pownall, Esq., Henry Treasurer, e t t Esq , and the County £2,000 0 0 lut y l i e r ,, 4 7, I G 6k o. C . r . awsl;a . y, E . s . q., the sum e ?ottcf‘i,' se d by e the Court to be borrowed (on 19t,'" ° . 81 ) on Mortgage of the County Rates August • • • • • • 6 . "0 0 0 £2,600 0 0 ll aid , CR. Iti gta 'r ' Samuel Walton the first . and second 1,, lrnetts due to him under his cont t I A —4l din 900 0 0 4 ,,1d 1 anew Infirmary • • •" • " 'r, on on that de Powell, architect, his l ltil r ' lt Qlsl n c .. • • illi ao ce 1 ? he l l tum n 45 0 0 f E gland in thC 655 0 0 three napes rn entione a d n ptr o contra on Oct. 1, 1864.. 1, £2,600 0 0 dg 10 I"IBTE YS BORROWED FOR PROVIDING• COUNTY IN- 13 USTRIAL SCHOOLS IN MIDDLESEX. 11 4 , 4 DR. tttr a ttc , in the Bank of England in the joint ge ese tienry Pownall Esq., Henry Morris (1 ' --e" 156 and the * County Tre.isarer, £ 806 0 5 41 a uli, .4i' .... - . r aid CR. 11 tile Sti dent of the School, for N e i grttl g s : v i i =eii l employed in erecting new £lOO 0 0 retail G e org e . 13 o wer a MOM' yof the balance Iv al ne I u nder his Contraot for erecting Gas l 'nr °l*.kr:„..and Bu'ldin s • • :* • • of IN Or ' eV" I ' , L !Ma l e, Z . c., supplied from 2d or (}lasso 30th June, 1861.. •.• *-* ,181, Oils, &c., fn. m 2 st April to Bth June, r' - I ,4l:ll n i e t° l l L, lt iongery , from 10th larch to 25th 37 3 3 or 11 , ,ro t • • • • •• • oth June, 1. 1 811 PeB, 4 0, from 19th April to .. ~ o r t .. 6 5 10 . ~ vitiq3 an dl , aths ** from * l7th March to 16th 214 0 0 or heart 64 . : .. .. .. 16 ii i au oof Bricks, from 17th March to pot ne, IF6I 47 15 0 B r Qg a • • 4 0 1 Man ce . and Barra on 29th April, 1804 .. 44 0ae 8 14 the Bank of England in the thre:t; Menti oned per contra on Ist Oct., 1864 185 18 6 £74 7 6 200 0 0 26 9 3 To 4 OH 0 5 4 4 2S-41 $ BORROWED FOR MiLAROIIiQ VIE 310175 E 07/ 317 16 7 135 10 6 249 13 9 1,%0 4 1 2,46) 14 8 N°. 22,563. CORRECTION AT COLDBATH FIELDS, AND PROVIDING TREADWHEELS THERE. RECEIPT. • Balance in the Bank of England in the joint names of Henry I'ownall, Esq., Henry Morris Kemshead, Esq., and the County Treasurer, on 2d July, 1861 £5,932 1 0 Received of George Crawshay, Et.q., the sum authorised by the Court t , be borrowed (on Bond No, 83) on Mortgage of the County Rates on 19th August, 1861 1,700 0 0 £7,632 1 0 EXPENDITURE. Paid the Clerk of the Works, 12 weeks' wages to this day .. Paid Messrs. Mansfield and Son the fifth and sixth instalment, under their Contract for erecting the new centre building, .. Paid Mr FrefiQrick Hyde Pownati, Architect, £37 16 0 1,95') 0 0 62 10 0 his commission thereon .. raid Messrs. Cliinnock's Trustees the amount reserved on their Contract for building the Win s B and C, css £3 for work which cannot be at present completed .. 057 0 0 Balance in the Bank of England in the three names mentioned per contra, on .at Oct., 18C4 5,324 15 0 £7,632 1 0 AS TO MONEY BORROWED FOR ALTERING THE B AND C SECTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION AT WEST MINSTER. RECEIPT. Received of George Crawshay, Esq., the sum authorised to be borrowed (on Bond No. 82) on Mortgage of the County Rates, 19th Aug., 1864 .. £4,000 0 0 • EXPENDITURE. Paid the Clerk of the Works 12 weeks' wages to this day .. Paid Messrs. Tracey and Co., Builders, on ac- £3O 0 0 count of their Contract .; .. .. .. Balance in the Bank of England in the three names mentionedper contra, 3st Oct., 1864 6CO 0 0 3,370 0 0 £l,OOO 0 0 The accounts, of which the above is an abstract, were 're sented to the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex on 3rd Oct„ 1864, on the oath of Dir. Charles Pettitt Allen, the Treasurer of the said county, and were audited on the same day by the following justices of the peace for the said county, viz. : Henry Morris Kemshead (Chat• man), Francis Brcck man Morley, Charles Woodward, William Peter Bodkin, and William Henry Wyatt, Esquires, and were audited and allowed by the same Quarter Sessions on 13th October, 1864. CHA KLES I'. ALLEN, Treasurer of Middlesex. FURNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CLERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo min) ^able engravings of every description or Furniture and L'easteads; with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised scale : A Six-roomed Parsonage Z7I 8 0 An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto . ....... A Twelve-roomed ditto Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valnable informationto all requiring househ)ld furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Brits. 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ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curia Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is app Jed. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Gd„ or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR,.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently- Ladies' Hair from 7s. Gd. ; Gentlemen's from is. The Dye is sold at .3s. Gd ,or sent free for 54 stamps. It is most easy of uce. ITAIR DESTROYER —248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the sk n, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post for 51 stamps. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES 0 IL, which peedily produces whi,kers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent tree fors4 st.mps.— AL EX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay )n Hair, Id. PIMPLE REMOVE EL—An diseases of the skin arc improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &c 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps.—ALEX. 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QPECTACLE S.—Lenses ground on a new t p r o e w m e e r old n d age,wwith th which the smallest print may principle, requiring less than half the usual magnifying be read to ex • (From the "Medical Circu lar," Nov. 16 , 18 5 9.) "We have seen Mr. Davis's improved spectacles, and by their aid the most defective vision may be improved." Steel Frames and Pebbles, 10s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. Glasses, ss. 6d., 4e. 6d., 35.q.1.... Country residents suited by stating age. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE VERY SHAM FIGHT.—The story of how this match was made, and how it did not come off, has been told by the sporting papers in their very best style. W e propose to compile, for the benefit of those who are not habitual readers of those papers, a brief narra tive of the rise, progress, and ultimate failure of the match. It appears that, by articles of agree ment dated June 10, 1864, Mace agreed to fight with Coburn " a fair stand-up fight according to the rules of the Ring of the Pugilistic Benevolent Association." The connection between pugilism and benevolence, however obvious to the properly in structed mind, may possibly need some elucidation far the general reader, and therefore we will give what is, we believe, the correct explanation— namely, that the above-nam'ed Association, which is similar in its objects to those which are main tained by other trades and professions, depends for support partly upon the proceeds of the sale of inner-ring tickets at prize-fights ; and hence the managers of the Association have been invested with authority to appoint ring-keepers, and gene rally to superintend the ring and the proceedings which take place within and around it. This ar t angement is not bad in theory, but a practical d ffi . culty sometimes arises when a ring-keeper who has received a considerable sum for tickets prefers to keep that sum in his pockets, instead of handing it over to the treasurer of the P.B.A. The only remedy of the managers of the Association in such a case is by a process similar to that of excommue nication by a Church of a disobedient member ; and, unfortunately,the similarity may be traced, not only in the process, bat in the equanimity with which it is apt to be received. In the present case, it was to be apprehended that, even if the ring keepers were ready to do their duty, the natives of the country in which the fight was appointed to take place would scarcely be found amenable to the delegated authority of the P.B.A. We know very well that Irishmen have conscientious objections to the use of the fist, but if one of these ring keepers had pro duced, as they sometimes do, a staff to enforce order, we certainly should expect that some of the com pany would respond to such a congenial demonstra. Lion. It could scarcely be said to be impossible that a genuine attempt to bring off this fight in Ireland would end in a general row and scrimmage ; and if it was likely that the police would be called in finally, it would be just as well for them to inter fere in the first place. However, to return to Mace and Coburn, it was provided by the articles between them that the fight should come off on Tuesday, October 4, above 20 and under 100 miles from Dublin, and that the referee should be chosen the day before fighting. The men went into training in due course, and both were reported to be doing well and to be full of confidence. Mace obliged the sporting world at Doncaster by walking over from his training quarters at Sheffield to the races ; and certainly both his appearance and the report which his trainer gave of his pedestrian and other per formances were well calculated to inspire his backers with the confidence which he professed himself. When he said, after receiving 'the final polish from his trainer, " I want to have a fight with Coburn be cause I am so well," it is likely that he was speak• ing almost the only word of truth that has been uttered in connection with these proceedings. The train which left Euston-square on the morning of Saturday, the Ist instant, was ominously unfure nished with fighting " mugs." We learn that such members of the P,R. as undertook the trip suffered as much as weaker and less famous men in crossing the Irish Channel. Even Mace himself, in the full perfection of his training, enjoyed no exemption from the ordinary sufferings of humanity. Sunday and Monday brought a considerable accession of leading pugilists, and also a detachment of those hangers-on of the Ring, with regard to whom it must have seemed mysterious how they got to Ire. land, and still mere mysterious how they would get back. If they never got back at all, the balance of profit and loss between the two countries on the transaction, would not perhaps be against England. These worthies, it may be supposed, went over in hopes of a job of ring keeping, and having with extreme difficulty scraped together enough money for their passage over, they must have been reduced to provide for their passage back by expedients into which it would be unkind to inquire too particu larly. We can only hope that the warning given by the editor of Bells Life, " that he has his eye upon them," will have the desired eff et, but we must own that, in reference to the security of purses and watches, we should prefer the eye of a policeman. It very coon became evident that there was no pro bability of bringing the fight off, even if there had been any desire to do so, which is extremely doubtful. It will be interesting to see how Mr. Edwin James treats these Irish proceedings in the columns of the New York Clipper; and as American journalists have had great experience in the mani pulation of similar materials, we should not be at all surprised to find Coburn transformed into a hero. But if he goes back leaving matters as they now stand, his fellow-townsmen of New York can hardly help feeling that they have been taken in ; for they certainly got up an enthusiastic demon stration at his departure, under the belief that he was going across the ocean to fight Mace. His conduct bears rather a strong resemblance to that of the gentleman who appointed time and place for a hostile meeting, and earnestly entreated all his friends on no account to give warning to the police. Coburn sent Mr. Edwin James to the place ap pointed for the choice of a referee the day before that named for the fight, and he instructed him to name one Mr. Bewley, a hotelekeeper of Limerick, of whom nobody had ever heard before, and to agree to no one else. The representative of Mace, on the other hand, proposed one well-known and unex. ceptionable person, and even offered to agree in choosing Mr. Edwin James himself. The con clusion drawn by Mace and his friends from the proceedings of their opponents was the very natural one that it was useless to remain any longer in Ireland, and accordingly they returned to England th a t night, Colearreproceeded next day to the appointed place, which was 95 miles from Dublin, and, presenting himself at the appointed time, threw his cap into a hastily formed ring, and claimed the stakes. The police were at hand in considerable force, but did not interfere, probably because they knew that Coburn, however valiantly disposed, could not fight unless he bad somebody to fight with him. But at earlier stages of the proceedings the police displayed great acti• vity, and laid hands on several robust persons on Suspicion that they were the intended combatants. But the people and the police of this happy land showed utter ignorance of what a trained pugilist ought to look like, and the general impression ap peared to be that any big man seen in the street was likely to be Mace or Coburn, and the more likely in proportion to his bigness. Almost the only good that has resulted from this'visit of Eng. lish pugilists to Ireland has been to demonstrate, what certainly needed domonstrating—namely, the peaceable, law-abiding character of the Irish people. If we were to attempt to take an elevated view of the proceeding, we should say it was a mission for propagating the doctrine of the superiority of the fist over ',.se stick, and we should have to own that, like some other missions, it has been unsuccessful. There may have been some slight stimulus given to the business of sporting public-houses by the announcement that their proprietors had returned from Ireland brimful of whisky and of anecdote. But, on the other hand, the expenses of the journey must have been considerable—not to mention such disagreeable incidents as "breaking down bodily at the first mouthful of boiled mutton and caper sauce," and being reduced to a state of pitiable incapacity for drinking, smoking, and almost for swearing, during the passage of the Channel. It would be superfluous to expend compassion on the deluded backers who have found money for the combatants. It is stated that £BOO has been advanced to Mace to make good his battle money and for expenses, and, as Coburn had to cross the ocean, even a larger sum must have been found for him. If those who advanced this money are satisfied with what they have got or are likely to get for it, nobody else has any reason to complain ; but, with our limited knowledge of American insti tutions, we cannot understand what Coburn's motive could have been for playing a part in such a farce. The net result of all that has taken place in reference to the so-called international contest appears to be that a considerable sum of money has been spent, and a great deal of trouble has been spent, to make the prize ring contemptible. The enemies of pugilism can desire nothing more than that pugilists should pursue their present course. THE SPECTATOR ON THEATRIC REALISM.—The sue ceps of Mr Boucicault's play, "Streets of London,"throws a curious light upon the present taste of the English public Night after night for 60 nights the Princess's Theatre has been crammed to the roof till the gallery looks like one of those quaint photographs lull of tightly packed faces, with crowds anxious to applaud a play whose only merit is a rough and partial realism. The story itself is a crude mixture of a scene from "Hard Cash," David Dod's arrival at Mr Harding's bank, and a French play called "Les Pauvres," and the French portion has not been very carefully adapted, English people do not stifle themselves with charcoal, either in sight of an audience or out of it, nor do English policemen release criminals arrested on warrants from motives of high-flow," generosity. Ihe dialogue though pointed is not better than the ordinary dialogue of plays which do not succeed, and very much inferior to the dialogue of either the " colleen Beam" or the " Ticket of Leave," and the acting is of the poorest and most conventional kind. Everybody looks his or her part decently, but except the gentleman who represents the fraudulent banker, whose shrewd villany and courage are the only genuinely dramatic feature in the play, and Mr Vining who acts the fraudulent clerk, nobody realizes even the common-place ideas which the piece contains. The comedian will not understand the distinction between comedy and buffoonery, and acting for 5 minutes—when he brings news of the fire—almost as well as Toole reduces the rest of his part to an absurd pantomime. Paul the victim of the fraud is a stick who does not even stand silent effectively, while Miss Barnett's ex pression of the hard hearted, purse proud, over-petted London girl is very much what a ladys-maid's would be if she tried to assume the character. Even Mr. 'Vining, who undoubtedly can act, succeeds only in the first half of his part, giving the shrewd scoundrelly clerk very fairly, and the clerk returned from California perfectly, but acting the clerk ruined but comic with too single an eye to the notion of fun entertained in the gallery. Still with all these drawbacks the piece succeeds, for it has in it, as we said, a rough inartistic realism more especially of locale. One scene is laid at Charing Cross on a winter's night, and the spectators having just seen it outside welcome it inside with boisterous applause. It is capitally painted to begin with, and the hot-pie man and the man who walks about with an illuminated advertisement on his head, the police man and the boy who tumbles, the chestnut furnace, and the woman who begs are all introduced, and all with one exception are as real as if just hired out of the streets, as is very likely the case. The exception is the woman who has to do something beyond looking the part, and who accord ingly begs with a scream for which if she did it outside she would be taken up by the police. The whole is, however, well arranged, and the delight of the audience with a scene which gives them nothing to think about, which they can criticise minutely without fear of error, wed which appeals to the memory and not the imagination, is most amusingly exuberant. London from Hampstead is not quite so well done, at least it has never been our lot to see Hamp stead under that Florentine atmosphere, but there is a crowning tableau. A house in some lane off Co vent Garden is set on fire, burns and explodes before the audience, white the regular crowd of loafers, street girls, street Arabs, policemen, firemen, and horses make up a scene of noise, confusion, and excitement which keeps the breath of the house suspended, It is really a most creditable piece of carpentery and arrangement, and we only hope for the sake of the lessee and the owner that Mr. Lloyds, who designed it, knows the use of tungstate of soda, for if the canvass once caught the flame of those spirit lamps, precaution would not be of much avail. The final scene seems poor and ineffective after the grand ." effect," but the audience depart delighted, having seen and heard nothing except an indifferent repetition of what they see every day. The taste for realism, which is the taste of the hour and in its way a sound one, has been gratified, and author and lessee will probably realise thousands by a piece which, if the scene were laid in Paris, would not rua a week. Will nobody take advantage of the new fancy to give the theatre-going public a genuine play, a drama of the life of to-day, with all this scenic realism and some thing else besides, a dialogue worth hearing for itself and a plot reasonably interesting and consistent P Is all the plot-making ability in England consumed in making novels, or does the want arise from the absence of a link between the playwright and the manager ? The latter may have, and we think has, something to do with it. It is the natural temptation of managers to apply for aid only,to known "hands,' men who have succeeded, and the difficulty of getting a play acted at all unless written by a known London professional checks or suppresses invention. Why should not managers act like publishers, announce that plays sent them would really be read, and pay by success, so much for every acting night? There must be dramatic ability sufficiently intelligent to comprehend the taste of the hour left somewhere or other in the land, and a successful piece nowadays must pay well. The poverty of the theatres has become a tradition, and though the change has not yet attracted many educated men to the stage, it has given managers energy and hopefulness enough to try experi ments. In a country which once had the richest native re pertory in the world, it cannot be necessai y for lessees to rely exclusvely on adaptations made from the French, and in their English dress either so unnatural that they fail from the first, or, like the catastrophe in the " Strews of London," so un-English that the pit at the moment of horror does not see what is going on, or, like " Gabrielle do Belleislo" so " improper" that the adaptor is compelled to sacrifice the point, and make the plot absurd lest English morality should take just offence. People arc wanting to see to-day on the stage, and not last century. Who acts Lord Foppington P-- but Lord Dundreary brings a fortune. A drama as good say as the "School for Scandal," but filled with the people of Mt, and surrounded by the ac cessories which modern skill in carpentry crn produce, seems to be the thing required, and it surely cannot be wholly beyond the range of English inventiveness. THE " LONDON REVIEW' ON THE NAUTICAL CIRCUM LOCUTION OFFICE.—Mr Dickens is frequently taken to task for raising whet is call e d a s h a ll ow and ignorant pre judice against the administration of business in Govern ment offices. We are told that the British Circumlocution Office is as unreal and fictitious a creation as the Milord of French comedies, or the Island of Barataria in " Don Quixote." But several times a year the Board of Admi ralty conies forward upon the stage to perform a new and original pas de fascination and to vindicate the truthful ness of Mr Dickens. There is, after all, such a place as the British Circumlocution Office. There is a happy ad ministrative valley, as secluded from the world as the valley of Rasselas itself, where the inmates play at leap frog all day at the national expense, where ships are built that cannot swim, and ships that can swim are imme diately dismantled. A famous Greek author tells us of the Egyptians that they seem to do everything by the rule of contrary. The Egyptien women dig, he observes, in the fields while the Egyptian men stay at home and sp i n . The modern Egyptians will be found without much difficulty at Whitehall, absorbed in the pro fitable and interesting task of throwing the Eng lish navy into a state of inefficiency, complicating dockyard accounts, underpayimg valuable seamen, pro moting the world advancement of incapables, and muddling themselves alternately over targets and guns.. There is a Providence, says Gibbon, that watches over imbecility; nor can it be denied that the Board of Admiralty has the host claims to its protection. Wooden ships are passing into disrepute. But the wooden walls of Old England will sur vive so long as the Admiralty stand. The naval affairs of the greatest maritime nation in the world are administered by a department which seems impervious to all reform, and whose present spokesman in the House of Commons, Lord Clarence Paget, is only remerkable in that assembly for his uniform and invariable inaccuracy in every single official statement that is extorted from him. The paying off of the Royal Sovereign at this precise moment is the Admiralty's last and perhaps its most singular feat this year, The ques tion of turret-going ships being just now the one question which it is of paramount importance to solve, with charac teristic ingenuity the Admiralty, as soon as Parliament is up, and they got their hands loose, proceed at once to shelve it. It is something like the dismissal of the Iron Plate Committee early in the summer. For the last two years the Iron Plate Committee had been labouring with con summate success at experiments between plates and guns. Just as the contest was arriving at its solution, the Ad miralty broke up a committee, which had succeeded till then—a rare achievement—in giving satisfaction to both impartial critics and private inventors alike. The cause was known in official circles to be that the Iron Plate Com mittee entertained a very different opinion to Lord Clarence Paget and his colleagues with respect to the originality of a certain Admiralty target. Within a few days after Sir John Hay had expressed this opinion in the house, the Iron Plate Committee were quietly informed that the necessity for their labours was at an end, If, in the few experiments that they were permitted to make before closing their report, they virtually solved the great problem of heavy guns, no thanks at all is due to the Admiralty, though a great deal of thanks is due to their own industry and zeal. We know now, in spite of the blunders of the Admi ralty, that England can make heavy rifled guns, which, with steel shell, will shatter every float ing target in existence, In the last three months this fact has been made patent to the country. Whatever may be the future improvements in artillery, great guns up to 600-pounders now exist, and can be turned out to any number, which would destroy a fleet of ironclads as easily as the lighter service guns would de stroy a fleet of wooden vessels. This fact ascertained, the all essential question is how best to build ships to carry and manceuvre them, and the Royal Sovereign is a most impor tant experiment on this very subject. She is not a floating battery, as the anonymous but official apologist of the Ad miralty in the Times suggests. To insinuate that a turret i ship can be nothing more than a floating battery s to beg the very question that is in debate, and th e very . question which the Royal Sovereign was meant to elucidate the Admiralty would only resign themse lves to givin her fair play, Instead of lotting the Royal Sovereign furnish data on the subject, the Admiralty take the opportunity of the re recess to pay her off, and put her in th e steam reserve, She is to be attached, forsooth, to the E xcellent as a tender, t o carry out experiments with turrets and guns. What possible good she can renderinthisTcahpaatchiteyrrteumtraeitnssaannd inhsectrguutanbslewniiily workstery to ordinary minds. in harbour or on a mill-pond may be easily conceded. What the ;ship, to say nothing of her apparatus, can perform '-kPF,II in a heavy sea, is the only thing w 4r h r "Se Pyiyigeiskr' the Admiralty and their chief adviser .tesOlutely:rpf4asst*s", examine. The excuse is so ludicrous that 'tsar' efeibtrea.../ been invented as an afterthought. That tfls published:P. the Times newspaper, we probably owe to the misdirected literary zeal of a well• known adviser of the Admiralty, whey does not scruple in person to descend masked into the arena of anonymous controversy. It is that in July a list of defects was sent up by Captain Osborn to Whitehall, which have not yet been made good. A hawsepipe was accidentally destroyed, it seethe, by a casual shot ; this much we know upon authority. The other defects an not detailed, and on the legal principle that all things are to be presumed against wrongdoers, we shall presume that they are lighter and more trifling than the Admiralty like to say. But what have the Admiralty been ding to mend them ever since July ? Apparently nothing, and unless their advocate gives us a list of what defects still require immediate attention, we may fairly assume that the awful catastrophe of the hawsepipe will have been sufficient to send a British ship into dock for all the autumn and winter months. "THE READER" ON THE LAST or THE TROUBADOURS. —Till within the last few days, at the entrance of the Promenade du Gravier at Ager, on crossing the street, cue object was sure to attract the eye of the passer by— a bright blue fl ig, destined hereafter to become more celebrated than either of those banners which have re cently occupied Garter King-at-Arms and his assistant heralds for two whole days in removing or fixing up at Windsor. This blue flag was tree from all coat armour, and simply, within a border of gold, contained the words " Tasmin, Coiffeur." To the readers of Longfellow the name has long been familiar as that of the famous Lan guedoc troubadour, The flag is now removed; the poet barber died on the 6th inst,, and another knight, not less celebrated than those whom Garter represents, has passed away, for the poets coiffeur was a knight of several orders, wore the Cross of the Legion of Honour, the Order of Gre gory the Great (presented to him by Pius IX, for his devo tion to religion), and the Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic. Though up to the time of his death he followed his lowly calling, the Journal de Lot et Garonne appeared with a mourning -border when announcing his death, for in life the poet was honoured by the great and good. A gold watch-chain and seals, the gift of the citizen king Louis Philippe, and an emerald ring from the late Duke of Orleans were among the personal ornaments worn by him. A golden laurel crown from St Clemente Isaure, Toulouse, and a golden goblet from Auch testified the estaem in which he was held by his compatriots. His portfolio was filled with compliments from ambassadors, great lords, and poets; and, through the good offices of the late Duchess of Orleans, M. Salvandy, than Minister of the Interior, gave him, in 1840, a pension of 1,000 francs. No wonder that Jacques Jasmin was vain, Like the great Napoleon, he summed up his pedigree in one word :—D'un pore bossu, d'une mere boiteuse, naquit un enfant—et cat enfant etait Moil" He was the son of a poor tailor, and was born at Agen in 1798. In 1825 he began his political career with the poem "Me cal mouri." In 1835 appeared "Los Papil. lotos," and in 1836 " L'Abuglo de Castel-Cuillee," the story of a girl abandoned by her lover on her being struck with blindness. This beautiful poem attracted universal attention, Longfellow translated it, and it will be found in his works with these introductory lines— " Only the Lowland tongue of Scotland might Rehearse this little tragody aright; Let me attempt it with an English quill, And take, 0 reader, for the deed the will." Indeed, Jasmin's verses bear a strong resemblance to Burns. In 1840 he published " Frangonnetto." It was his favourite. When travelling about, as was his wont, from town to town of the South, reciting his poet'y like a troubadour of old, he once said, with great naviete, " True, true, I am a troubadour ; but I am far above all others : they were but bungling tyros, amd never Emit forth a poem like my Frangennetto.' " " Marthe la Folle" followei in 1544, "Les Deux Freres Jumaux" in 1845, "La Semain (run Fils" in 1849, and, close upon it, " Ma Vigne," in which ho confesses that he allowed the lads to steal his grapes, be cause, as a boy, he had often stolen flail himself. It is said that several unpublished poems are kit behind him. Of simple habits and a most kindly disposition, he was much beloved; and on Saturday last, the day of his funeral, which took place at Agen, the entire population turned out to honour his remains. The funeral was a public one, but the mourning was sincere and general. During the solemn service of the Church a deep impression was proiuced by the organ playing the air of Jasmin's first poem, "Me cal mouri" (I must die), before the last tones of Mozart's " Miserere" had died away. ESTABLISHED 1837. LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Empowered by special Act of Parliament 4 Vitt., cap. 9. B RITANNIA 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted at the lowest rates of Pre , ium consistent with security. The various Tables, some of which are peculiar to this Com pany, have been studiously adapted to the requirements of every class of Assurers. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. T HE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1836. Offices-1, Dale—treet, Liverpool; 20 and 21, Poultry, 7, Cornhill, and 56, Charing-cross, London. (Empowered Specially by Parliament.) INVESTED FUNDS EXCEED £3,000,000 STERLING. By an Act of the last Session of Parliament, the Globe Insurance Company of London was amalgamated. as from the 29th September, 1862, with the Liverpool and London Com pany, and by a clause in the Act the name of the latter Com pany was subsequently changed to THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOB e; INSURANCE COMPANY. 'the CAPITAL of the Company is Two Millions, of which £390,009 is paid up and invested ; and in addition there are Reserve Funds, which, independently of the Life Reserve, amount to £1,200,000. FIRE INSURANCE.—The Premiums in 1863 exceeded £580,000, and were greater than those of any other Company by upwards of £200,000. The position in the Duty Return will be understood from the following statement:— The Sun, established in 1710, collected duty in 1863, £215,000 The Phoenix „ 1782, 1/ 138,003 The Liverpool and 1836, 11 11 133,600 London and Globe j whilst no other Company collected as much a 5...... 90,000 LIFE INSURANCE.--The Premiums received in 1863 were £209,5::0, and the Annuities paid amounted to £33,500. The Fund accumulated to meet these Liabilities is Z 1,450,000. The Liab lity of Proprietors is unlimited. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident ,Secretary. September, 1864. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Offices-2, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS, (Ohio Division) Payable in London. 4,000,000 Dollars. Due in 1883, Coupons due Ist January and Ist July. Secured by a Registered Mortgage on the Income and all Corporate Rights, Privileges, Lands, Franchises, Plant, and Property of the Ohio Division of the Railway. The Bonds are redeemable at par in New York, or in Lon don at 4s. Od. per dollar. and are transferable without stamp or endorsement ; Interest Coupons arc attached to the B payable semi. annu y, at the Cons lidated Bank in London, at the fixed rate of 4s. to the dollar. The Bonds will be issued at 66, at which rate Bonds of 1,000 dollars will cost £l4B 105., carrying Coupons due January 1, 1865. The Coupons represent £l4 per annum on each Bond of 1,000 dollars, or 9A per cent interest on price of issue. The immense development of the Western States of Ame rica, without any increase in the means of transit to the Eastern ports, has given the At antic and Great Western Railway, as rapidly as the different acetic:, s have teen opened, an unexampled success. The whole line is now ful y ready for business and thoroughly ballasted, but the demand for rolling tv ock has been so far in excess of anticipation that adequate pi ovision for it has not been made, and 200 miles of the main line has remained shut up until now. Great eff r s have been made to sm ply locomotives, carriages, and trucks. The Company has built ex ensive works for their construc tion, and are now turning out one locomotive complete every four days, and ten freight 01rs every day. In tuis way the demand will, in reasonable time, be supplied. As the entire through traffic to and from New York will pass over the Erie Raila ay, it is but reasonable that that Company. which will so largely be.nefit, should furnish a por tion of the rolling stock, and to meet this a treaty has been made with the Erie Directors for the expenditure of five million do lars in the construction of engines and cars The entre amount is now under contr ict for rapid delivery, and as received will be used exclusively for the through traffic over the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, the latter Company on its part agreeing to supply a similar quantity for the same purpose. Following the financial policy, adopted at the outset, of issuing securities to the public only after so much of the line was finished as would secure the necessary income for pro viding the interest, the Company feel justified, now that the building of this great railway is complet d, in making this additional issue of Bonds. During the last ten yeari, no railroad of any magnitu le has been built on the American Continent except the Atlantic and Great Western, in which period the population and all produce, agricultural and mineral, have largely increased ; hence results the pro perous state of most of the railroads, whose net receipts have enabled large dividends to be paid to the stockholders, after providing interest on indebtedness, thus The Clevelar d, Columbus, and Cincinnati Rail way divided last year The Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton The Little Miami 30 1R The Illichigan Central is ~ The Lake Shore, Cleveland, t ainsville, and Ash tabula and it cannot be doubted that the Atl antic and Great We-- tern, possessing almost a monopoly of the petroleum traffic, and passing over the extensive coal fields of Ohio, which are of gt eater extent than even the large field of Pennsylvania, will show results at least equal, and most probably exceed ing some of those above named. The whole system of this Railway, when in operation, will onsist of— The Main Line -ila'amanca to Dayton 385 mires, Branch to Cleveland 67 „ Franklin Branch and Buffalo Extension BO „ Total 532 ~ Oi this 322 miles have been successfully worked during the summer; for the last three months the earnings having ex ceeded I,t Co,oco dollars, Es , 'mating the receipts on the entire line to be only aq groat in proportion (and unques tionably they will be considerably larger), there would accrue— Dols. A gross receipt of . .• Deducting 50 per cent. working expenses Leaving net gain 3,373,708 Interest on total Bonded Debt, in- Dols eluding prevent Issue ..... ....... 966,560 Rent of Leased Lines -1,266,560 Leaving surplus ... 2,107,418 This, under ordinary circumstances, would be applicable to Dividend on Stock, but for the amount required to pay interest on Bonds (7i7,86 ) dollars being payable in London, at the fixe 1 rate of 4s. per dollar, and the rate of exchange at present ruling exceptionally high), a portion of above surplus would be absorbed in the premium for gold. It is thus evident that the resources of the road will be far more than equal to meet the charge for interest, even should the rate of exchange rule much higher than at present. The several divisions of the Atlantic and Great Western Rai way have been consolidated under the government of James Robb, Esq., whose reput tion as a Banker and Rail way Administrator is established in Europe as we 1 as in America. Mr. Robb. as President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, joins the Direction of the Erie and other lines forming the Throu2h Route between IVew York and St. Louis, so as to secure unity of action. The price of issue has been fixed at CO. The terms of issue are as follows : £ s. d. 5 per cent on application, being 11 5 0 per bond of 1000 doll. 10 „ on allotment „ 22 10 0 „ 91 15 „ 19th November „ 33 15 0 „ 15 „ 19th December „ 33 15 0 „ tt 21 , 19th January „ 47 SCo less £7 Coupon due Ist January -- £145 10 0 Subscribers have the option of paying the instalments in advance, and will be allowed a discount of 9 per cent per an num on such pre-paymen s. After allotment, Scrip Certificates will be issued to " bearer." These Certificates will be exchanged for Bonds to " bearer" on payment of the final instalment. Forms of Application may be obtained at the Consolidated Bank, or at the offices of the Company, No. 2, Old Broad trcet, London, E.C., or of E. F. SATT ERTHWAITE, Broker, 38, Throgmorton-street, London, E.C. London, Oct. 12, 1864. ATLANTIC ORM AND GRE AT WEST AT WESTE lORNN. RAILWAY. F OF To be forwarded to the offices of the Company. No. 2, Old. Broad-street, London, E.C., atter payment of the prelimi nary Deposit to the Bankers. No.- To the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. Raving paid to the Consolidated Think (Limited) the sum of , I hereby request that you will allot me dole. Second Mortgage Bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway (Ohio Division), and I hereby agree to accept such Bonds, or any less number that may be alloted to me. I am, your obedient servant, Signature Address in full Date TAA4/Zca ,LA ... 14 . 0 gb• • 4 ( .4: %111 • , VICO r 42 ,1191111r...111.y• 4 11l rd. , A+ . - , L-r„ •••••1 • - • . Tr—, • •st , 1 05 ir). , D . ), 14r • ^ - 4•" • . ' ae,adaa //tfaz d—cor-N, • PRICE ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. / Death of Captain Becher. We have to announce the death on Tuesday last, of this well-known sportsman, the father of steeple chase riders, and. whose deeds in the pigskin some 30 years back have immortalised him in the annals of that sport. Capt.lhcher was born in Norfolk, and. was the son of Mr Becher, a farmer in that county, who was conspicuous as a horseman end the last of the leather-breeches school. C•ipt Becher commenced his career on a pony, and wes remarkable as well for the boldness of his riding as for the judgment he displayed in the hunting field. Being popular with the noblemen and gentlemen in his neighbourhood, he received the appointment of captain in a yeo manry regiment, w hie!' gave him a stuttis among his contemporaries of much benefit throughout his career. In 1830 he first came out at St Albans, where, on Mr Angerstein's Tattler, he rode second to Lord Ranelagh's Wonder. At the same place, in 1832, for the Grand Steeplechase, he was third on Corinthian Kate to Moonraker, ridden by Dan Sef fert ; and in 1834 he was in the same position on Zigzag to The Peat, who was steered by Jena Mason. At Northampton. two months afterwards, his luck changed, and he began on Vivian a series of victories which raised his reputation to the highest pitch, for he won the Northamptonshire with him, beating Vanguard and Liverpool; and afterwards the Grand Aylesbury Chase, beating Laurestina and 18 others, including Lord Water ford's Lancet and Mr Elmore's Grimaldi. So cha grined was the Marquis at his defeat that he imme diately challenged Vivian with his second string, Cock Robin, to run over the Harborongh country for £2,000. Captain Lamb, the owner of Vivian, accepted the offer, and, after a fine race, by Captain Becher's superior jockeyship, Vivian won cleverly. In 1835 he won the St Albans Chase on Agnes, for Captain Fairlie ; and was second on Caliph, at Chela tenham, to Patrick on Boabdil. In 1836 he won the Waltham Abbey on Grimaldi ; and at Ayles bury he was second to Powell on Saladin, for the heavy weights steeplechase, but won the light weight on him, beating Grimaldi, Yellow Dwarf, and the Pony. At Egham he was second, with Vivian, to Powell on Red Deer; and he likewise won the Liverpool on The Duke, beating Dick Christian, Polyanthus, and several others. At St Albans fortune again smiled on him, but the battle was dearly paid for, as his horse—the far.famed Grimaldi—died after pass ing the winning flag. Worcester saw him win with his favourite, Vivian, whose name had begun to be quite a household word among the followers of steeplechasing; but at Leamington he wee very unexpectedly defeated on him by Flacrow, ridden by that well.known Leicestershire yeoman, Mr. Haycock; Lord Waterford, on Yellow Dwarf, being third, and Lord Clanricarde, on Carlow, fourth: At Northampton he was again a thorn in the side of the Marquis of Waterford, as he beat him on the Crow with Mr. Fairlie's Wing, with whom also he won the East Grirstead chase. In 1837 he won at Bath with Fieschi ; and at Danchurch with 71b. extra, on Vivian, he defeated .Terry and a very large field. But in the following week Jem Mason on Jenny turned the tables both on him and Flacrow. Cheltenham saw him again a winner this year on Vivian, before a very large number of horses. In 1838 he was not so lucky, as he only won the Northampton on Vivian. and ran second with him at Daventry to Lottery. After this he retired on his laurels, his frame requiring rest from the many severe accidents he encountered during his career,_ aad which caused him afterwards to walk lame. In appearance Captain Becher was strong as a Her cules, and he could endure any amount of labour and fatigue. In knowledge of pace he was second to none, and in finding out the weak parts of a country he was very clever. Against his integrity nothing was ever alleged, but he failed to make hay while the sun shone, and retired into privacy upon a competency on his wife's side, which ren • dered the close of his chequered career calm a n d P ° lacid Ho was buried at Willesdon cemetery on Saturday last in the presence of a few who had d r a i y e d, Mr. associate;; among ' W h om we tt, aCe `J Ul Pan i e d by n b o ee ti n ced his lathisotledr. fn Messrs. C. end W. Moore, Hemp:ion, Eden and W. Smith. The mourners included his two sons, Mr. Dobree, his brother-in-law, and Dr. Price. THE WORLD OF MAGIC. —On Professor Andcrd son's kind invitation upwards of 500 of the juvenile poptvw lation enjoyed a perfect treat, while witnessing the perfor. mance of the renowned professor at St James's Hall on Sa turday last, being his sixth morning performance. The children from the Royal Caledonian Orphan Asylum, at tended by their excellent band, in their national costume, were especially noticed. The professor donned the native tartan. The hall was crowded. s+.